Leaves from a Family Journal (Classic Reprint)
Leaves from a Family Journal (Classic Reprint)

Author: Emile Souvestre

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-03-17

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780243940394

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Excerpt from Leaves From a Family Journal Strength said, What matters the task? Feel you not that to you it will all be easy? It is the weak alone Who weigh the burden. Atlas smiled, though he bore the world on his shoulders. Faith added, Have confidence, and the mountains which obstruct your path shall vanish like clouds, the sea shall bear you up, and the rainbow shall become a bridge for your feet. Hope whispered, Behold, before you lies repose after fatigue, plenty will follow after scarcity. On, on, for the desert leads to the promised land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Leaves from a Family Journal
Leaves from a Family Journal

Author: Emile Souvestre

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2019-07-30

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780371004975

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This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Family of Fallen Leaves
Family of Fallen Leaves

Author: Charles Waugh

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0820337498

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This collection of twelve short stories and one essay by Vietnamese writers reveals the tragic legacy of Agent Orange and raises troubling moral questions about the physical, spiritual, and environmental consequences of war. Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed approximately twenty million gallons of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliants on Vietnam and Laos, exposing combatants and civilians from both sides to the deadly contaminant dioxin. Many of the exposed, and later their children, suffered from ailments including diabetes, cancer, and birth defects. This remarkably diverse collection represents a body of work published after the early 1980s that stirred sympathy and indignation in Vietnam, pressuring the Vietnamese government for support. "Thirteen Harbors" intertwines a woman's love for a dioxin victim with ancient Cham legend and Vietnamese folk wisdom. "A Child, a Man" explores how our fates are bound with those of our neighbors. In "The Goat Horn Bell" and "Grace," families are devastated to find the damage from Agent Orange passed to their newborn children. Eleven of the pieces appear in English for the first time, including an essay by Minh Chuyen, whose journalism helped publicize the Agent Orange victims' plight. The stories in Family of Fallen Leaves are harrowing yet transformative in their ability to make us identify with the other.

Ancestral Leaves
Ancestral Leaves

Author: Joseph W. Esherick

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-02-09

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0520947622

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Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family—"Ye" means "leaf" in Chinese—reveal the human side of the large-scale events that shaped modern China: the vast and destructive rebellions of the nineteenth century, the economic growth and social transformation of the republican era, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Cultural Revolution under the Chinese Communists. Joseph W. Esherick draws from rare manuscripts and archival and oral history sources to provide an uncommonly personal and intimate glimpse into Chinese family history, illuminating the changing patterns of everyday life during rebellion, war, and revolution.

Leaves from the Family Tree
Leaves from the Family Tree

Author: Penelope Johnson Allen

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780893082277

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This book is a collection of family histories primarily in East Tennessee which the author compiled and wrote for the Chattanooga Times Sunday Magazine from December 3. 1933 to March 21, 1937.